Katja Reinhard

2015 is the international year of light

Highly related to retinal research! No vision without light! 

http://www.light2015.org/Home.html

Our paper "Retinal output changes qualitatively with every change in ambient illuminance" is finally published in Nature Neuroscience!

Here we investigated the effect of changes in ambient illuminance on the retinal output and fount that the retina encodes the same stimuli differently at each different illuminance. For example, an OFF-cell might become an ON-OFF-cell simply due to a 1 log change in illuminance. Or another cell might change it's c...

Rods in daylight act as relay cells for cone-driven horizontal cell-mediated surround inhibition.

Tamás Szikra and colleagues published their work on the role of rod photoreceptors under photopic conditions, i.e. bright light conditions under which rods were thought to be inactive due to saturation. 

Our methods paper on how to perform retina recordings with perforated MEAs has been published by PLoS ONE!

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0106148

Congratulations to the Hu group for their paper in Nature Communications!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25354791

Several reports on the Lush Prize have been published:

http://www.gea.de/region+reutlingen/tuebingen/ihr+projekt+gibt+blinden+hoffnung.3426730.htm

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http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/newsfullview-pressemitteilungen/article/tuebinger-nachwuchswissenschaftlerin-erhaelt-internationalen-lush-prize.html

http://www.pro-retina.de/newsletter/forschung-tuebinger-nachwuc...